Catherine Margaret (Dares) Legge (bef. 1766 - 1825)

Born before 4 May 1766 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of William Edward Legge — married 14 Aug 1785 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 3 May 1825 after age 58 in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Catherine Margaret, Margaret (the tradition, according to Punch, was to use a person's second name as the primary, given name - this also helps explain the confusion over the two children, Catherine, for researchers - see below), was baptized on May 4, 1766, at St. Johns Anglican Church in Lunenburg Nova Scotia. The daughter of Nicolas Darey and Sussane Jacot, she married William Legge August 14, 1783, at St. John's Anglican Church in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She passes away May 3, 1825, at age 60.^[1][2][3]

Research Notes

Failure to recognize that there are 2 Catherine Darés

Catherine and Catherine Daré - There is a Catherine who arrives as a child, born abt. 1746 (Bell's Register family Daré p.84). Shankles has her baptized 1752 (he uses Wrights, Pioneers and Planters). She will marry in 1768 to Frédérique Jeaudry. Then there is (this) a Catherine Margaret Darée born to them in 1766 who will marry William Edward Legge (pronounced "leg") in 1785. The two Catherines are sometimes treated as one (paraphrased from Jim O'Connor).

No Huguenot Connection

"Huguenots were French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term has its origin in early-16th-century France. It was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. By contrast, the Protestant populations of eastern France, in Alsace, Moselle, and Montbéliard were mainly German Lutherans." From The Foreign Protestants "...the immigrants were almost all Protestants, and during their early years in Nova Scotia were known collectively as ‘the Foreign Protestants’ to distinguish them from the Acadian French."

Sources

1. ↑ Montbélliard Emigrations to Nova Scotia, 1749-1752, p. 78, Torrence M. Punch, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore Maryland, 2014.
2. ↑ Don Shankle, Shankles Lunenburg, Birth, Marriage and Death Records, Births, Marriages and Deaths from Primary Sources - from Lunenburg County and Queens County church and civil records, [1]
3. ↑ Register of The Foreign Protestants of Nova Scotia (ca. 1749-1770), Section 1A, p. 84, Written by Winthrop P. Bell, Ph.D., Compiled by J. Christopher Young, Ph.D. (author-published).

• Register of The Foreign Protestants of Nova Scotia (ca. 1749-1770), Section 1A, p. 84, Written by Winthrop P. Bell, Ph.D., Compiled by J. Christopher Young, Ph.D. (author-published).

Acknowledgments

• Contributions by Glenn Legge and Nancy Legge. DrgnMastr on Rootsweb. Thanks to Jim King for starting this profile.

• A duplicate with the LNAB Daree was started by Debbie Pierce through the import of Deborah Smith Family Tree 2015.ged on Sep 10, 2015. This profile had an AncestryMember Tree <--- Broken Link as its only source.

• Nadine King